Auschwitz survivor saved by Scots soldier dies

John Mackay, 96, rescued a column of Jewish prisoners from their Nazi guards as they marched from Auschwitz to another concentration camp in the closing months of the Second World War
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“All her family was with her, John was with her as well. It was sad for them. He was just totally doted on her and she doted on him, it was so sad.”

Eci will be laid to rest at Dundee Crematorium on July 12.

Roughly six million Jewish people died in the Holocaust.

Eci’s mother also survived the horrors of Auschwitz, where around a million people perished. They were among the few who avoided death by being asked to work after arriving from a Hungarian ghetto in June 1944, and were resident there for six weeks.

Both Eci and her mother were captive in the camp whilst Nazi Josef Mengele was conducting experiments on inmates.

Eci made keepsakes during her time in the camp which she kept her whole life, including a comb and book of poems.

John also served in North Africa, escaping an Italian prisoner of war camp in Tobruk, Libya.